Environmental Causes of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Sheiphali Gandhi, Roberto Tonelli, Margaret Murray, Anna Valeria Samarelli, Paolo Spagnolo, Cristina Porta, Francesca Bodega · 2023
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Description
Sheiphali Gandhi and five colleagues review the environmental and workplace causes of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. This lung disease scars the lungs and grows steadily worse; it mostly strikes older men. The disease is called idiopathic, yet age is its strongest risk factor, and many exposures raise risk further. They include metal dust, wood dust, air pollution, smoking, and diet.
The same factors can trigger acute flare-ups that carry poor outlooks. Recent work stresses inhalation injuries among World Trade Center first responders and military personnel. The review explains how exposures likely interact with genetic susceptibility to start and drive the disease. The authors picked exposures by overall disease burden rather than trying to list them all.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sheiphali Gandhi, Roberto Tonelli, Margaret Murray, Anna Valeria Samarelli, Paolo Spagnolo, Cristina Porta, Francesca Bodega |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |